Filing date: 06/28/1997 State: Florida Plaintiff(s): Presidential Women’s Center Center Attorney(s): , Janet Crepps, Suzanne Novak Summary: In 2002, CRR joined this case as co-counsel on behalf of Florida abortion clinics and doctors challenging Florida’s “Woman’s Right-To-Know Act,” which became law in 1997 and was enjoined immediately thereafter by a Florida state court. , Plaintiffs […]
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United States Goes Before U.N. Human Rights Committee Geneva – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights urged the United States to uphold the legal pledge it made under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), an international human rights treaty established in 1966 by members of the United Nations. The Center called on […]
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San Francisco The Center for Reproductive Rights hails today’s ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as a victory for equality. This afternoon, the court ruled that a set of seven-year-old twins conceived posthumously were the legitimate children of a Tucson man under Arizona state law and therefore, were entitled to Social […]
Decision Marks a Victory for the Health and Rights of Pregnant Women Daytona Beach, FL The American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Florida NOW applauded today’s decision by a Florida court of appeal blocking an attempt that would have opened up the floodgates of government intrusion into the private lives of […]
Today, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled that an anti-choice protestor had no right to use a false advertising law to harass the state’s sole abortion clinic. The decision maintains a lower court ruling that recognized there is no established link between abortion and breast cancer. “As a result of today’s ruling, anti-abortion activists will […]
Appointing a guardian for a fetus would violate a woman’s right not only to decide whether to continue her pregnancy, but also to choose medical care to protect her own health during pregnancy, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Florida NOW argued before the court of appeal today in a […]
The state of Florida should stop interfering with a woman’s ability to make choices concerning the course of her pregnancy and medical care, said the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Florida NOW, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a case involving a severely disabled pregnant woman. “This woman’s health and […]